Cookman kept playing until a few months before his death in 2005.

He played as a central defender for several domestic teams between 2000 and 2011 before his death on the field during a football match.

This was the final role that he played before his early death.

Shafer only played 6 games for the team before his death of injuries received in a game on November 11, 1944.

Declining health, however, stopped him playing not long before his death.

He had continued playing golf until the fall of 1960 not long before his death.

He occasionally played in public in the early 1970s until shortly before his death.

Duke Ellington played at the venue several months before his death in 1974.

He last played two weeks before his death, at a benefit concert.

He played the role until a few days before his death.